Categories as organizers
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Just starting here. I’m a teacher; this is a classroom blog. I teach 3 different classes, but want just one blog. I thought I could organize the static page in as a welcome for all, but use three different “tabs.” I assumed categories was it, but I’m beginning to think I’m going about it all wrong. Can you suggest a strategy? Juniors go to the Junior section, Sophomores, to theirs, etc.
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Okay, I’ve figured out how to use page and parent. I’m cool, though I still don’t understand how categories behave.
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Is this your blog?
http://pnommensen.wordpress.com/We volunteers in the forums don’t have any back-end access so we rely on what people tell us. It is almost always necessary for us to see the blog you are asking about.
I can not emphasize this too much:
Before you get too far along in setting your blog up, please make sure that you understand the difference between posts and pages. Posts can be categorized, and their category and archive “pages” are dynamic: each time you add a post, the category (or date ) list of posts automatically updates. Pages are for info that doesn’t change much over time: something like a reading list for the semester, or required text books. They can not be categorized.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/Now, on to
Categories:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/You could have a category for each of your classes: Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores. You would write posts for each class, and assign each post to the appropriate category. On your customizable menu, you would have header tabs (navigation tabs) to each category. When a student visits your site, he (or she) could select the tab which pertains to the course and be able to see the information you wrote for that grade level.
If you set your site up with a static front page, students could choose which group of articles (or posts) they need to look at. But you can set a static front page or use the custom menu option to organize your site (or both).
Categories can have sub-categories so each grade level could have different topics to choose from, relevant to their own level.
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